00984nam a2200181   4500008004100000020001800041037002800059041001200087082001400099100002000113245002700133250000600160260003300166300000800199500052800207650004200735650002500777260802b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780008164959  cGiftednJincy Elizabeth  aEnglish  aFbCHR/AP  aAgatha Christie  aAPPOINTMENT WITH DEATH  a1  aLondonbHarper Collinsc2016  g259  aA repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra…

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met…  aMurder — Investigation — Fiction   aFamilies — Fiction